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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Hello hello!! Today the Hero Arts Summer 2016 Products launch in their store, and I'm joining an amazing hop full of fabulous stampers! Wowza I'm super honored to be here with them! You should have arrived by way of Laura Bassen's blog. If you didn't, you might want to head back to Hero Arts to start at the very beginning.

This summer release is so much fun!! It's full of cool travel-themed stamps, as well as beach-themes, lemonade, parks, ice cream, palm trees - pretty much everything that screams "summer".

For today's hop, I'm sharing a couple cards I taught at a tradeshow back in April. It was my first time teaching at a tradeshow, and needless to say I was a basket of nerves. But in the end I had a ton of fun and met a bunch of super sweet store owners. I loved everything about it!!

This next card uses some of the travel and adventure-themed stamps. This particular set is called City Adventure. Lots of fun city icons in this set, and a bicycle too, so you know I loved it as soon as I saw the bike! :) I used the coffee and donut for this card.

Is that a donut? Or is it a bagel to go with the NYC feel of this set? I'm not quite sure - I think it could be either! I used masking tape to mask off the center of the card, and later filled that space with a message from Dapper Dad. The images were watercolored - I used Daniel Smith paints (loooove them!) but any watercolors would do.

Here are some happy stampers after my class. It was so much fun!!

And here's all of the awesome summer products, on display at the show. I had the good fortune of having Joan Mills work the show with me, she is absolutely wonderful!

Now let's continue with this hop, shall we? Next up is the lovely and talented Lori Craig! And here's the entire hop list, in case you need it:

Be sure to leave everyone some love, as Hero Arts will be giving away three $25 shopping sprees, drawn from all of the comments left along the entire hop! Leave those comments by Sunday night at midnight pacific!

Yum, this card reminds me of black rasberry ice cream , my fav! I love the texture and can't wait to try that out, looks so real. Looks like you guys had a lot of fun, wish once in a while they'd come to New Jersey, I'd love to attend. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

Clever to use the die as a stencil for the texture paste! And thank u for reminding me I can mask off my sentiment area with a little planning- makes for a different, clean look rather than just my usual overlay of a pop-dotTed shape over the background ..

All of your cards are great. The first on reminds me of American Bandstand and the movie "Grease." My favorite card is the Love card. The colors are lovely.Thanks for sharine your talent on this blog hop.

This time the ice cream is purple! Cool! I love this set because the ice cream looks so real! They do make edible glitter so you are right when you did that, plus it looks so pretty. I'm not a big fan of the donuts/bagel and coffee stamp but I like what you've done with it. Nice job on both.